Verify, don't trust
How to verify any photo vault
in five minutes.
You don't need to be an engineer to know whether a privacy app deserves the name. These five checks work on any vault — including ours. Especially ours.
1 · The airplane test
How: enable airplane mode, then use the vault fully — import a photo, view it, export it. Good looks like: everything works, nothing nags. If features break offline, your photos depend on someone's server.
QuietStor: works entirely offline — the app can't reach the network at all (see check 2). passes
2 · The permission check
How: Android Settings → Apps → the vault → Permissions. Good looks like: media access and little else. A photo vault does not need your contacts or your location — and the strongest signal of all is an app that doesn't even hold the INTERNET permission.
QuietStor: the INTERNET permission is absent from the app. Not unused — absent. Android itself enforces that nothing can be sent. passes
3 · The tracker scan
How: look the app up on Exodus Privacy — an independent scanner that lists every tracking SDK bundled inside an APK. Good looks like: zero trackers. "No ads" means little if five analytics SDKs ship anyway.
QuietStor: zero trackers, zero analytics, zero third-party SDKs phoning home. passes
4 · The privacy-policy audit
How: open the privacy policy and search (Ctrl+F) for cloud, server, third party, share. Good looks like: nothing to disclose. What a company admits in its own policy is usually the floor, not the ceiling.
QuietStor: our policy is short for a simple reason — there is no collection to describe. passes
5 · The exit test
How: before trusting a vault with years of memories, try to get one photo out, in a format that opens without the app. Good looks like: a standard, documented export. If leaving requires a subscription or a proprietary format, your files are hostages.
QuietStor: sealed exports are standard AES-256 ZIP — they open with 7-Zip, WinRAR or macOS, with your password, no QuietStor required. Leaving with everything is a feature, not a loophole. passes
Why we publish this
Because the five checks are the argument. A vault that fears this page has something to hide; a vault built for it has nothing else to prove. Full details of how QuietStor is engineered are on the security model page.